This footage that was shared live on Facebook shows a man confessing to having killed his ex-girlfriend moments before he went on to kill his ex-wife and then turn the gun on himself

In the footage Rajaee Shareef Black, 44, starts off saying: “I never thought that I would be doing this but I gotta make it quick.

“For everybody out there that supported me, and who really knows what’s going on, thank you all. I’ve been going through a custody battle. I’ve been going through having my ex-wife saying that I molested my children and all kinds of craziness. I’ve been fighting for custody for three years.”

He then added: “I started dating somebody new. And she got pregnant and erm we got in a fight, and the first thing she does is threatening that she is going to do the same, ‘you’re never going to see your kids’, bla bla bla.

“It’s the holidays, man. I don’t have no family, or nothing. Anyway, I just did something crazy, man. I just shot my ex-girlfriend in the head, yo.

“It felt like a dream. I mean I never would have thought that I would be that guy. I can’t go to prison. So, the person that really started my depression and all of this is my ex-wife. So, she next. And then I’m going to do myself too.

“But I just wanted to say this to people. Don’t play with people’s emotions, man. Don’t lie on these men.”

He then says “oh, here’s my ex-wife right here” before there is a commotion and the footage ends.

The video was apparently made after he shot his girlfriend in the head, and moments before he shot and murdered his ex-wife Wendy Natalie Black, 42, who he had accused of claiming that he had molested his own children.

The incident took place on the 7300 block of Eden Brook Drive in Columbia, which is a census-designated place located in Howard County, in the eastern US state of Maryland on Saturday 11th December.

Howard County released a statement in which they said that police secured Black’s two young children from the back of his grey BMW X3, which is located “in the parking lot of the apartment complex where the shooting occurred”.

The children, who have not been named have been placed “in a safe environment” and the county added that they did not witness the incident.

The county said that investigators believe that Rajaee Black had gone to Columbia “after having just committed a domestic homicide a short time earlier” in the city of Baltimore, also in Maryland, where he is believed to have killed his 41-year-old girlfriend, who has not been named.

Police then arrived at the scene on 11th December at around 2 PM after reports of gunshots and found two dead adults who had suffered fatal gunshot wounds.

Moments before, the alleged shooter had reportedly shared this footage live on Facebook.

Rajaee Shareef Black is believed to have shot his ex-wife Wendy Natalie Black dead moments later before turning the gun on himself.